Comments by "Ash Roskell" (@ashroskell) on "Jenrick pours contempt on the principle of cabinet collective responsibility" video.

  1. Can I just get back to basics and challenge the whole notion of, “reducing net migration,” at all? We really need population growth. That’s how we generate economic activity, taxable income and cover expenditures like pensions. There are so many fundamental notions that have been craftily written into current political discussions as though they are a given, when they’re actually just not!
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  2.  @ilokivi  : The myth of, “scarcity,” is the one that boils my blood, out of that huge list (that I don’t doubt we could compile together) because they exploit people’s fears into CAUSING that very scarcity (the, “who’s gonna’ pay for . . .?” mob) that everybody fears! Some nations are on the brink of economic and social collapse, because they have ageing populations and not enough birth rates to replace the dwindling younger populations who would support their pensions and the growing need for elderly healthcare that all countries are seeing as life expectancy goes up. The Chinese are in a real crisis due to their, now reversed, single child policy and Russia too is at the top of that list, due to them squandering young men on an unwinnable war in Ukraine, and frightening off all their best and brightest youths, from their draft. At the last count, over a million service aged men have fled Russia in the last year. And what would Britain benefit most from, right now? An injection of young adults, who will have babies and generate taxable income and economic growth? Perhaps the sort of younger people who have the courage and gumption to risk reprisal rather than commit genocide? Perhaps the sorts of people from all over the world willing to risk life and limb because they say NO to fascists and demagogues? Those people educated enough and committed enough to get here, willing to do the million or so jobs (at last count) that we Brits feel are beneath us, like picking crops, cleaning the streets, warehouse work, etc? The very solutions to our problems are on our doorstep, literally banging on the door and asking to be let in, but our government wrongly believes that they can stir up Nazi levels of hatred against, “the other,” and desperately cling to power like limpet mines, going off and taking another chunk of the country’s institutions with them, destroying the very foundations of our identity and law, for their sociopathic egos and greed. I’m not expecting any great insights or meaningful leadership from Labour, but at least they don’t encourage fascism in their party! So, I’ll take them over the Tories any day of the week.
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